1 John 3:1-3, 5, 9, 11, 16, 18

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.

No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.